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OnMusic Explorations

OnMusic Explorations

Author: connect4education

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Table of Contents
Lesson 1: Can Music Have A Specific Purpose?
Lesson 2: The Performer's Role
Lesson 3: Types of Listeners
Lesson 4: Structure of Music
Lesson 5: Duration, Pitch, and Volume
Lesson 6: Instrumental and Vocal Timbre
Lesson 7: Orchestral Timbre
Lesson 8: Rhythm, Tempo, and Meter
Lesson 9: Melody
Lesson 10: Harmony
Lesson 11: Form
Lesson 12: What Is Jazz?
Lesson 13: The Blues
Lesson 14: Pivotal Figures Before Modern Jazz
Lesson 15: Bebop and the Advent of Modern Jazz
Lesson 16: Early Exponents of Cool Jazz
Lesson 17: Miles Davis, Modal Jazz, and Bill Evans
Lesson 18: Ragtime, Popular Song, and Jazz Roots of Rock
Lesson 19: Rural Blues and Urban Blues
Lesson 20: Other African American Roots
Lesson 21: Swing and Big Bands
Lesson 22: Midterm
Lesson 23: Rhythm and Blues Becomes Rock and Roll
Lesson 24: Elvis Presley
Lesson 25: Rockabilly
Lesson 26: Bluegrass
Lesson 27: Soul
Lesson 28: The British Invasion: The Beatles
Lesson 29: The British Invasion: The Rolling Stones
Lesson 30: Folk and Folk Rock
Lesson 31: Country Rock and Southern Rock
Lesson 32: Hard Rock
Lesson 33: Hip-Hop
Lesson 34: Exploring the Landscape of African Music
Lesson 35: African Instruments, Drum Language, and Popular Music
Lesson 36: Music of Japan
Lesson 37: Instruments & Japanese Folk and Pop Music
Lesson 38: The Many Voices of Latin American Concert Music
Lesson 39: Music of Colombia
Lesson 40: In the Concert Hall
Lesson 41: Final

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OnMusic Explorations is the first step in your students’ journey to explore and hopefully start to untangle the mysterious power that music has on billions of people world-wide every day.

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Beginning with a broad introduction to basic music concepts and organizing elements, OnMusic Explorations helps your students dig deeper into the musical components so they can become more perceptive listeners. With this foundation in place, the text shifts focus onto exploring the panorama of music genres from America, Europe, Africa, Japan, and Latin America.

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Music Selections – With an extensive selection of world music, every lesson in this course contains streaming music.

Listen to Lecture – Text is narrated for online listening or downloadable for offline playback.

Discover Video – Videos in every chapter reinforce student understanding and engagement. Our video applet keeps students on the page and on task.

Written Assignments – Three written assignments are included in OnMusic Explorations.

Assessments – OnMusic Explorations includes automatically graded quizzes at the end of each region, along with a midterm and final exam, all of which can be used as is or customized to fit your needs.

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ISBN:978-0-9991160-8-1